A09365:1238
The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience
The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three books: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundry places, and the other two annexed. Taught and delivered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his own briefs, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolved; another of the principal texts of Scripture which are either explained, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1606Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1606
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 1.
Fasting is then to be used, when a just and 1weighty cause or occasion thereof is offered. There be two just causes of a fast.
Fasting is then to be vsed, when a iust and 1weightie cause or occasion therof is offered. There be two iust causes of a fast.
- 1The just cause of a fashThe iust cause of a fash
The First is, when some judgement of God hangs over our heads, whether it be public, as Famine, Pestilence, the Sword, destruction, &c. or private. The Prophet Joel in the name of the Lord, calls the Jews to a strait and solemn fast; and that upon this just occasion, because the Lord had sent a great dearth upon the land, Joel 2. 14, 15, &c. Esther and her company fasted, when she had heard news of the intended destruction of the Jews,